Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the Palestinian prime minister's office early Sunday, just hours after a Palestinian official said the soldier whose abduction sent Israeli troops into Gaza is alive and in stable condition.A Hamas militant was killed in another Israeli airstrike.Palestinians witnesses said two missiles fired by attack helicopters hit the Gaza City office of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas early Sunday, slightly injuring a bystander and setting the empty building on fire.Inspecting his burning office, Haniyeh called the attack senseless."They have targeted a symbol for the Palestinian people," he said.The Israeli military confirmed the attack and said it would "employ all means at its disposal ... to secure the safe return" of 19-year-old soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit who was abducted by Palestinian militants on Sunday.... http://www.usatoday.com

The U.S. military on Saturday said it was investigating the death of a soldier in eastern Afghanistan as a possible "friendly fire incident."The Defense Department said Pfc. Justin R. Davis, 19, of Gaithersburg, Md., died on June 25 in eastern Kunar province when he came in contact with indirect fire - a term used for mortar shelling - while on patrol during combat operations."The circumstances of the soldier's death are under investigation as a possible friendly fire incident," the statement said.In Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition released a statement saying an investigation into the incident is under way."We are looking into Pfc. Davis' death to determine what happened. No final determination has been made and we will not release any information relating to the investigation till it is complete," the statement said....http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_Afghan_Friendly_Fire.html

The government will vote Sunday on a proposal to supply electricity from Israel to the Gaza Strip, in order to resume electricity to the area after an Israel Air Force strike on a Palestinian power station there. If approved, the Israel Electric Corporation will erect special electrical lines stretching from Israel into Gaza. According to government sources, Sunday's vote follows days of international pressure.The Gaza Strip requires 200 megawatts of electricity, half of which is provided by the power station, and half which is supplied by the Israel Electric Corporation. After the IAF strike, the power station's capacity was cut by half. United States officials said Saturday that U.S. funds would be used to pay for the damages caused by the strike. The power station was insured by a U.S. government agency, according to The Boston Globe. The U.S. Foreign and Defense Ministry departments that oversee foreign relations were unaware of the decision to target civilian facilities ...http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/733394.html

The United States is undermining Nepal's peace process by warning it could cut aid if Maoist guerrillas join an interim government without giving up their weapons first, the rebel's chief said. "Even now, they are creating an atmosphere of suspicion and trying to stop a peaceful atmosphere from building up," Maoist leader Prachanda told state-run Nepal TV late on Saturday. The U.S. ambassador in Nepal had said earlier that Washington would not support a government in Kathmandu that included the rebels if they continued violence in the countryside despite a two-month truce. U.S. ambassador James Moriarty said Washington — a key donor — could stop aid to the impoverished country if the rebels joined an interim government without giving up arms first. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2144717

A founding member of a hippie movement called the Rainbow Family suggested Saturday that it launch a federal lawsuit against a growing crackdown on their annual gatherings. Barry Adams, known in the Rainbow Family as Barry Plunker, told a council circle at the first day of this year's weeklong gathering at Routt National Forest that federal pressure has gone too far. Dozens of Forest Service officers, county deputies and Colorado State Patrol officers are manning checkpoints and patrolling camps as thousands of hippies flood the forest about 30 miles north of Steamboat Springs. Under federal rules, any gathering of more than 74 people in a national forest requires a permit. Officials have said that in a fire, the narrow dirt access road would become clogged and campers would be trapped. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2144663

Harold Stuart Roach Jr.'s name is not on the wall.He was a Navy pilot whose plane crashed into the South China Sea in 1964. But it fell 300 miles outside the combat zone, and he doesn't qualify for a place on the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.His daughter, Elaine Roach, refuses to accept the Pentagon's reasoning. She argues with the government. "My dad died in Vietnam," she says. "What's the question?"She presses the issue because more than four decades after the crash, she's still in pain, and not just because the loss of her father in Southeast Asia turned her young life upside down.Elaine Roach suffers new wounds, from a different war in a different part of the world....http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-02-war-torn_x.htm?csp=34